Île de Bezençon… an island where all you can bring is eight Eurovision songs and a luxury, if you can get them over the border. As the summer stretches out, John Paul Lucas is the island’s next visitor on Eurovision Castaways, the ESC Insight summer podcast series.Add the RSS Feed to your favourite podcast application, or click here to follow us in iTunes and keep up to date with Eurovision during the summer of 2017 and beyond.

After a short ‘in real life’ break, it’s time to return to the Île de Bezençon for the next episode in ESC Insight’s summer series. Everyone needs music on holiday, but because of some rather exquisite border rules, guests to the island can only bring eight Eurovision records and a luxury with them… and you need to get them past customs.

Ellie Chalkley is still on border duty as John Paul Lucas remembers Malta, near-death experiences, and the wrong type of Eurovision fan.

The ESC Insight crew continues to travel to Île de Bezençon for the summer with their favourite Eurovision related songs and stories. John Paul Lucas is the next visitor to argue for his musical choices to be allowed across the border.

Ellie Chalkley is an all-round music, media and culture enthusiast and citizen of the internet. As an overly analytical pop fan and general knowledge hoarder she finds the Eurovision Song Contest bubble to be her natural home. She comments gnomically on Eurovision matters at @eurovisellie.

Welcome back Eurovision Castaways. You had been away so long I was starting to think Nigel Farage had staged a coup on Ile de Bezencon and introduced a tough new immigration policy. Thank you John Paul for introducing me to some songs (Norway 1966, Poland 1995, Israel 1983) that are at least worth a second listen. I’m also intrigued by Belarus 2005.